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COVER: Iwanagara Appleblossom 'Pink' grown by Stella Son. INSIDE COVER: phalaenopsis, grown by Cheryl DiDonna.

Orange County Orchid Society, Inc.

April 2020 Volume 74, Issue 4 Zoom Presentation Date April 15, 2020

Set-Up and Connect ...... 7:15 PM Speaker ...... 7:30 PM

Officers President ...... Fred Anderson First Vice President ...... Jeff Young Second Vice President ...... Sharon Tanner Corporate Secretary ...... Open Membership Secretary ...... Candy Jester Treasurer ...... Susan Scheffler Past-President...... Anne-Line Anderson, Nohline L’Ecuyer, & Dana Seelig Directors Class of 2020 ...... Peggie Berry & Scott MacIntyre Class of 2021 ...... Leroy Lance & Kathy MacIntyre Class of 2022 ...... Jan Anderson & Tim Roby Zoom Speaker: Peter Lin Chairpersons Table of Contents Topic: 12 Months of Orchids AOS Rep ...... Anne-Line Anderson Front Cover – Iwan. Appleblossom 'Pink' .. FC Peter Lin will discuss how to build Auction ...... Anne-Line Anderson, Inside Cover – Phalaenopsis ...... IC Kathy MacIntyre, Janet Roberson, Speaker ...... 1 an orchid collection to have blooms for Susan Scheffler, & Janet Wilson President’s Message ...... 2 every month of the year. There are Beginners’ Table ...... MaryAnn Burns Dues Payable as of Now ...... 2 many orchids that bloom at different & Jim Wheeler Looking for a Treat? ...... 2 Facebook ...... Sharon Tanner Supporters ...... 2 times of the year, so instead of Field Trips ...... Rosa Laursen All Dressed Up ...... 3 concentrating on one season, now you Historian...... Jan Hennessey Humorous Thought ...... 3 Judging ...... Anne-Line Anderson Photo Sharing: Candy and Walt Jester ...... 3 can have a collection of orchids in bloom for each month of the year! & Tim Roby Photo Sharing: Jan Anderson ...... 4 Meeting Facilitator...... Jeff Young Photo Sharing: Jim Wheeler ...... 4 Peter is an OCOS member, grows Member Plant Sales ...... Rosa Laursen Photo Sharing: Susan Scheffler ...... 5 orchids in three small greenhouses, Opportunity Table ...... Sharon Tanner Photo Sharing: Cheryl DiDonna ...... 5 and operates Diamond Orchids. He Orchid Digest Rep...... Brenda Ward Photo Sharing: Anne-Line Anderson ...... 6 Programs ...... Jan Hennessey Photo Sharing: Stella Son ...... 7 grows primarily mini-catts, sophronitis, Publicity ...... Jan Hennessey Photo Sharing: Brenda Ward ...... 8 dendrobiums, and miniature species. Ranger Editor ...... Janet Wilson

This presentation will be via [email protected] Refreshments ...... Malcolm Geffon All pages before Page 1, or after Page 8, are Zoom—a popular video conferencing Shows ...... Rosa Laursen in the e-edition only software—and all members will be Sunshine ...... Candy Jester emailed a link to set it up, download Website & Graphics ...... Rosa Laursen Workshop ...... Peggie Berry & Dan Warren If you are still getting the printed version, the program, and watch Peter over OCOS Website - www.ocos.net switch to the e-edition today, and see all the the internet. Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ pages of beautiful flowers in full color. groups/723079571117930/

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President’s Message January 2020 Auction You all are probably getting tired of staying at home but all indications Commercial Supporters are that we will be released soon (June or July is my guess). In the meantime, just repot and repot; remove dead leaves; and repot. We are set up to move to the Yorba Linda Community Center as soon as the quarantine is ended. It is a very nice facility with parking and several Diamond Orchids rooms in which to hold our meetings and culture classes. I want to remind everyone that dues are due—they’re $15.00. Please Peter Lin send you check to Candy (see information below). by appointment only I really want you all (ya’ll) to join us for our virtual meeting via Zoom, 834 Featherwood Drive April 15, 2020 at about 7:30 PM. Peter Lin will be our speaker. You will Diamond Bar CA 91765 receive an invitation via email. Follow the links and join us. Please start 909.573.6751 about 15 minutes early so if you have problems you can call me or Jeff. [email protected] www.diamondorchids.com Fred Anderson

Dues Payable as of Now Looking for a Treat? Candy Jester Janet Wilson

Kalapana Tropical, a long-time supporter of our auction, is offering Hatfield Orchids $60 Hobbyist Mixed Box Specials of George Hatfield two plants (shipping included) just in [email protected] time for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, or just a Happy Spring gift to yourself. Like many of our supporters, they

are missing out on Spring shows and Kalapana Tropicals the business that comes with them. John & Mindi Clark Consider ordering something from any of our supporters to brighten your PO Box 527 Dear members, the OCOS new year day. Kurtistown HI 96760 begins June 1 2020, and the Board A full list of our supporters is in this 808.966.6842 hopes to publish the new membership year’s directory on pp. 16-18. orchids@kalapanatropic als.com directory much earlier this year. www.kalapanatropicals.com We know that you want to continue being connected to your local Society and receiving The Ranger, so please send your check for 2020-2021 dues Monsoon Flora Orchids to the following address. The yearly Bryce Augustine cost of $15.00 has not changed. PO Box 6851 We all hope to be seeing one Santa Barbara CA 93160 another again and sharing our love of 805.967.6355 orchids before too long. Stay healthy [email protected] and thanks in advance. Please send your dues to Remember our supporters when Candy Jester you look for something new! 740 S. Stillwater Ln. Anaheim, CA 92807

For any questions, please email me at [email protected].

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All Dressed Up and Photo Sharing from Candy and Walt Jester Nowhere to Go: I have filled “spice sacks” with a Orchids in These Trying Times tablespoon or two of timed-release Janet Wilson fertilizer and will tie them on the top of mounted plants, to be released over the next nine months when I water.

Cym. Alice Alisa Sleeping Beauty ‘Sarah Jean’ × Cym. Alice Williams ‘Emerald’. It has seven spikes this year and had six last year. How I wish they would all come out at the same time! When Candy Jester and Anne-Line Anderson first sent me a few photos, I had no idea what was going to appear in these pages. But thanks to them and several others, we have these I no longer have any excuse for not lovely reminders that Spring is, doing more repotting—except, maybe, indeed, here. the weather! We hope that this brightens your day I can write numbers on my and inspires you to work with your cymbidium pots and enter them with the names into the computer so I plants. Even though we all feel stuck at home, for an orchid lover, this is a know how many plants and duplicates Den. speciosum kingianum great time to catch up on several ho- I really have, instead of guessing. We were excited to come home on hum tasks now that will yield Monday [March 16] and find our dendrobium blooming like crazy. It is so wonderful flowers later. faithful and puts on this show every year. It’s about 5 feet across.

Humorous Thought for the Day Janet Wilson The follow quote has been making the rounds, since many people are finding they have more time at home: “After years of wanting to thoroughly organize my house but lacking the time, this week I discovered that wasn't the reason.” Hope you find happy orchid Den. linguiforme. I think we bought this at reasons (if you want) for not Andy’s in the last three to five years. I organizing the house! Cym. Cliff Hutchings ‘New Horizon’. It was think it is at least the second time it has repotted in May 2019 and has three spikes. bloomed for us.

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Photo Sharing from Jan Anderson

Photo Sharing from Jim Wheeler

Phrag. Don Wimber ‘Corky’ HCC/AOS

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Photo Sharing from Susan Scheffler

Susan writes, “As for how I'm spending my time, luckily I made a trip to Yamada a few months ago and purchased a supply of orchid bark and pots. So I have been doing a lot of repotting. As soon as I see some new roots, I have repotted, mostly catts and laelias. I've kept them in my unheated, uncooled greenhouse, but at least they have been protected from the rain and wind.” “And with all the time on my hands, I've been checking my collection for insects, new growth, spikes, and blooms. Almost all of my orchids are outside under shade cloth or in the greenhouse, but I do have a few in my kitchen window.” “Walking around my yard, checking the orchids, has been very calming and takes my mind off the news.”

Photo Sharing from Cheryl DiDonna

[Editor’s note]: If you look carefully at the phalaenopsis in this photo, you can see that it’s mounted. A Phal. schilleriana, I’m guessing. See another phalaenopsis at Cheryl’s house on the inside cover.

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Photo Sharing from Anne-Line Anderson Anne-Line writes, “I am checking my Cattleya type orchids for new growth so I can repot before the roots get too long.”

Cym. (Karen Hawaiian ‘Hatfield’s’ × Ernest Hetherington ‘Geyserland’) “With all the rain we have had recently I am also collecting rainwater. I don’t have a water filtration system so I use rainwater as much as possible. I have two large collection containers, but large buckets or a garbage can would work too.”

Cym. (Magic Passion ‘Rowes’ × Champagne Robin ‘Hatfield’s’)

“I am also checking my plants for bugs, particularly the cymbidiums since many of them are blooming now. Bugs tend to hide in the leaf sheaths.” “I have tried using horticultural oils as recommended by a recent speaker. But be careful! I may not have used a sufficiently diluted solution on the leaves of some of my plants. They [Editor’s note]: The three phals in this clearly did not like it, but the bugs are column are No Name or No ID (noid) gone, and I think they will recover.” phals. I wish the phals at my house looked this good, named or not… Dgmra. Winter Wonderland ‘White Fairy’

[Editor’s note]: Dgmra. stands for Degarmoara, a complex hybrid of brassia, miltonia, and odontoglossum.

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Photo Sharing from Stella Son

Sl. Minipet (red mini catt)

Den. Australian Artist Den. Roy Tokunaga, flowers (top) and entire plant (bottom)

Renanetia Sunrise, flowers (top) and entire plant (bottom)

[Editor’s note]: I always like it when an article shows me an entire plant—I think I actually learn more that way.

Please also see Stella’s Iwanagara Appleblossom 'Pink' on the cover.

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Photo Sharing from Brenda Ward

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